'Light Express' set on Spanish Fork stage

SPANISH FORK — "The Light Express," a musical written by Karrol Cobb and P. Lockwood, opens Friday at the Royal Palace Theatre, 165 N. Main, in Spanish Fork.

Popular in Los Angeles in the 1980s, the show is about taking a mystical train ride through life. As passengers win a seat on the old Light Express, the story unfolds. The engineer tells them that they will fall asleep and forget him once the journey begins. His introduction seems strange to the passengers, but when they awake they are babies!

The train moves the passengers through childhood, into the teenage years, into adulthood with children of their own and finally old age and death. The engineer never leaves them, but the passengers can't see him until they "pass on."

The cast includes Josh Francis as the engineer and Matt Hogan, Katie Young, Elicia Petersen, Jon Mier, Jaimie Fullmer, Tina Francis, Gavin Hardy and Tatem Credille.

The show runs through Sept. 30, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays only.

Tickets are $35/family, $8/adults, $6/seniors, students and children. Call Boothe Brothers Music at 798-7650 for tickets or buy online at emersonsmith.org.